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COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Southeastern Conference's first expansion since 1991 has added not only new travel and experiences for newcomers Texas A&M and Missouri, but also the rest of the league.
The new look of the SEC isn't limited to the changes in its geography, though, as the Aggies have remained one of the top offenses in the country, shaking up things in a league long known for defense.
The Aggies are third in the nation in scoring (45.5 ppg) and tied for fifth in total offense (542.88 ypg). It's nothing new for first-year Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin, whose Houston team topped the country in scoring and total offense last season.
Despite that success in Conference USA, many doubted he could replicate it in a league where five teams finished in the top 10 nationally in defense last season.
Sumlin was matter-of-fact when asked if he ever questioned whether his offense could succeed in the SEC.
"If we didn't think it could work, we wouldn't run it," he said.
Still, he understands why people were reticent to believe this offense could put up huge numbers against much tougher competition. Especially in a conference where no team has finished in the top 5 nationally in scoring since Florida was fourth in 2008, or total offense since the Gators finished second in 2000.
"People have the right," Sumlin said. "We're the new guys in the league so I don't see that as derogatory or anything like that. You're always going to be skeptical of anything that's new or that you don't know about."
Auburn coach Gene Chizik saw just how powerful A&M's offense could be on Saturday in a 63-21 A&M win. Texas A&M had 34 first downs, 671 yards and scored touchdowns on seven of eight possessions with quarterback Johnny Manziel before he was replaced after the first possession of the third quarter.
"I think that his is a different type of offense," Chizik said. "They are spread, no-huddle offenses that are obviously difficult to defend. Some are very different than others. This one is very unique."
Mississippi State defensive coordinator Chris Wilson, who worked with Sumlin at Oklahoma from 2005-07, is one person in the SEC that isn't a bit surprised by Sumlin's success at A&M. No. 17 Mississippi State hosts 16th-ranked A&M on Saturday.
"Kevin is a guy who knows what he wants to do. He's got a great plan," Wilson said. "The biggest thing is he's a good communicator — communicating with his coaches, with the administration and with the players. That makes a good teacher. And when you can deliver your message and do it with accurate information, it definitely speeds up the process. He does that as well as anybody."
Sumlin believes some of Texas A&M's success comes from his team having a chip on its shoulder because of those who expected the Aggies to fail in their move from the Big 12 to the SEC.
"We do have something to prove," he said. "I've said that from the beginning, we're in the best league in the country for football and as new guys to the league we've got to prove ourselves. I think our guys understand that, I think as coaches we understand it."
The Aggies have enjoyed the travel that has come with the move as well. They've switched in-state trips to places like Austin, Lubbock and Waco for jaunts to Oxford, Miss. and Auburn, Ala. They'll travel to Starkville, Miss. this week before next Saturday's visit to Tuscaloosa, Ala.
"Every one of these games is new to these guys and I think last week was a prime example of being excited to play," Sumlin said. "We're going places we've never been and guys are excited to go there."
Georgia coach Mark Richt has also enjoyed the change in scenery that came with adding the new teams this season.
"In life, change is good sometimes," he said. "You start doing the same thing over and over again, and sometimes that can be tiresome."
Second-year Vanderbilt coach James Franklin's team picked up its only road win this season on its first trip to Missouri on Oct. 6. Still, he's more worried about his team than how Missouri and A&M have changed the SEC.
"I think it's great for the league," Franklin said of the expansion. "It's something new, exciting and different. I haven't been in the league long enough to have a great perspective. The venue I'm concerned about making the best in the SEC is right here in Nashville at Vanderbilt. It's getting better every single week and we just have to keep building on that."
The Tigers, who got their first SEC win last week against Kentucky, have a similar mindset as they prepare for a trip to No. 8 Florida on Saturday.
"It's a great experience, and we're not there for the experience, we're there to win," Missouri defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson said. "That's how we look at it."
AP Sports Writers David Brandt, R.B. Fallstrom, Charles Odum, Teresa Walker and John Zenor contributed to this story.


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The Nationals toyed with the forces of mojo Thursday night at Nationals Park, trotting out their rarely-used red, white, and blue alternate jerseys for the players, and letting the racing presidents don their traditional period uniforms for the first time this season.
It didn't work.
The Nats' normally solid defense fell apart early, committing 3 errors, and Teddy Roosevelt delivered one of his weakest races of the season. Even after cheating and cutting the outfield corner, the original Rough Rider never challenged front-runner Thomas Jefferson.
The Battle of the Beltways starts Friday. Look for the Orioles to bring their creatively-named mascot The Bird to Nationals Park for a third year of presidents race-related hijinks.
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"This stuff matters."
Jon Lander, the executive producer of CCP Games' EVE Online, tells me this during an interview on the first proper day of the company's Fanfest 2013 event in Reykjavik, Iceland last month. He doesn't seem to mean much by it and at the time I took it as a throwaway comment. We were in the midst of a larger conversation about monetization and his company's business practices.
However, after three days surrounded by developers and EVE devotees, I came to understand this as the foundational idea and central thesis of the game. All human interaction—be it face-to-face, in an online forum, or expressed through a series of intricate systems and delicate game mechanics—has value.
By the end of the event the mantra that the world of EVE Online is every bit as real as the physical world has been repeated during every panel, every roundtable discussion, and every keynote. The speakers' tropes become a running joke for media and PR reps alike: "single-shard universe," "emergent gameplay," "player-driven narrative," "sandbox." But the impact behind these ideas is self-evident in the faces of 1,500 people from around the world who flew to Iceland for a week to congregate, talk shop, and party.
CCP Games' decision to house the American media corps in the Centerhotel Plaza at the base of Austurstraeti seems like a tactical choice to make this year's Fanfest Pub Crawl as accessible as possible. Austurstraeti is the main street in Reykjavik's shopping and night life district, which makes for easy traveling. The Harpa, Reykjavik's newly-constructed concert hall and convention center, is nearby as well.
Behind the hotel lie the parts of Reykjavik that more closely resemble where its 200,000 citizens live and work every day. Small shops and houses with exposed beams sit along narrow, one-way, cobblestone roads connected by an intricate network of alleys, cut-throughs, short cuts, gardens, parks, and courtyards. Wandering around I see people in their offices working, someone hanging art in a gallery, and a woman baking bread. In this neighborhood I feel less like a tourist and more like a voyeur.
That feeling stays with me for the rest of Fanfest, especially when I watch two EVE players get married at the end of the first day or when the artist running CCP's ad hoc tattoo parlor tells me that at least 50 people have gotten the Guristas logo permanently etched into their skin. I have to conduct an online search to find out that the Guristas are a prominent group of NPC pirates in EVE Online, prowling the game's lawless hinterlands for easy marks.
Later, during the EVE Online keynote, the 1,500 people packed into the Eldborg auditorium lost their collective minds over the news that the game's upcoming expansion, Odyssey, would move ice mining from belts to anomalies. A few seconds later changes to ore and moon mining were announced. Senior producer Andie Nordgren (also known as CCP Seagull) told the audience that they would soon be able to launch seven probes at once instead of the paltry three they'd suffered with until now. I was a bit perplexed by the thunderous, riotous applause that greeted these seemingly minor in-game tweaks, but I suppose that as an outsider that's kind of the point.
"We've created this virtual world, this digital universe where people can go and really do whatever they want," Lander tells me. "It's supposed to be a world. It has good people, it has bad people. Violence. It has altruism, it has politics. EVE has all of these things."
If EVE is a virtual world, Fanfest lets me know I'm a tourist there too.
Equal parts celebration, pilgrimage, and bacchanal, Fanfest is an annual event devoted originally to all things EVE Online, but the festival has increasingly expanded to cover CCP's other offerings. Attendees this year hear about the upcoming free-to-play first-person shooter Dust 514 and the Vampire: The Masquerade-based MMO World of Darkness. It's a place for fans to gather and attend panel and roundtable discussions, but the celebration is also a chance to rub shoulders with CCP's various development teams during private dinners, charity poker tournaments, and the aforementioned pub crawl.
Fanfest 2013 was reportedly the largest one to date, which reflects not only EVE Online's steady growth but also the heightened excitement surrounding the game's 10th anniversary this year. "I thought it would be fun," a Canadian EVE player named John tells me. "It's EVE's 10-year. Everybody's talking about it."
John is a member of Surely You're Joking, an Alliance that specializes in exploiting EVE's wormhole mechanics. "Another SYJ member was coming as well, so we thought we'd meet up, have fun. And drink."
"I've never been to Iceland before," says Scott, another EVE player, but from the opposite end of North America: Mississippi. "You play this game for long enough, all you hear about is Iceland. It's made in Iceland, all the developers are here. A lot of people talk about it."
"A lot of people" is many of EVE Online's 500,000 monthly subscribers. That number looks modest when pitted against World of Warcraft's multiple millions, but EVE—and CCP along with it—has grown steadily since its launch in 2003. CCP generated $65 million in 2012. According to chief marketing officer David Reid, that's enough to bankroll EVE's ongoing expansions as well as development on Dust 514 and World of Darkness.
"EVE is a very successful game," Thor Gunnarsson, the vice-president of business development at CCP, tells me. "At least from a business perspective, it is certainly an outlier or an exception to the rule in the MMO space. [With most MMOs], you create a game, launch it, have your big opening weekend, hit your big plateau, and then manage the fall-off."
EVE Online's sustained success and popularity can be attributed to a mix of intricate, open systems that allow equally intricate social structures. Players band together to form corporations, multiple corporations form alliances, and multiple alliances form coalitions.
Lander calls it "the infernal machine… You have to harvest things to build things to blow them up. But you need reasons to do those things. It's about creating those great, big, grand things which groups of people can achieve."
The trick, "the most manipulative, sort of Machiavellian thing we ever did," Lander says, was to host the entire game on just one server. Named "Tranquility," CCP's massive server is located in London and operates all of EVE Online and Dust 514. "If you have a single universe … there's no duplicate of it anywhere else. Somebody has to be there to be a part of it," he explains. "What I've done can then be persistent, and now we have a history in our world."
"There was a corporation called M0o around 10 years ago, 2003," Lander begins. M0o was one of the game's earliest and most ruthless groups, notorious for squatting on interstellar bottlenecks and pirating anyone and everyone who came through. The group didn't last long, however—they disbanded about eight years ago.
"But everybody knows about them," Lander says. "People still talk about systems where M0o had set up camp… for those people who knew them, that were destroyed by them, it had great meaning. They wear it like a badge of honor."
Lander continues, regaling me with the story of Chribba, a player that "has never done a bad thing in EVE, since day one." Chribba's claim to fame is his elaborate Veldspar mining operation. Veldspar is very common and relatively inexpensive. Chribba made, and continues to make, his fortune by acting as a third-party arbiter and escrow holder. "He's got a reputation for doing good things in the community," Lander explains. "He's got a reputation that is absolutely crystal."
These types of player-driven stories have a way of propagating through the EVE community in local, in-client chat rooms, private corporation- and alliance-governed forums, and fan sites. Collectively they form EVE's shared history, from the halcyon days of the Great War to present-day tensions between the game's massive coalitions.
Steve Shultz is an EVE player from the Twin Cities, a rookie fleet commander in an alliance called Gentleman's Agreement. He hated EVE Online for the first six months he played it and was prepared to quit until he read an account of an alliance called Gents. This group systematically dismantled a rival alliance in a region called Vale of the Silent.
"I started reading about what they did," he tells me. "They scouted it out, they ransomed capital ships, they had them bubbled and locked down." Gents set up three evacuation routes and charged a toll, and slaughtered anyone stubborn enough to resist. "They fail-cascaded that alliance," Shultz enthuses. "I decided that's something I wanted to be a part of."
That desire to take part in and shape EVE's collective history creates meaning for people, according to Lander. "If things are meaningful, people are prepared to put their own price on it. This stuff matters, and it's why people will continue to come back."
Scott, the player from Mississippi, has spent most of his career as a member of the United States Coast Guard. He's a staff officer supporting the Coast Guard's criminal investigators. "We move around all the time," he tells me. "In the last 13 years, I've lived in 12 different places. So you have temporary friendships, temporary connections.
"But every time I move, the same people that I talk to in-game … wherever I go, they're still the same people," he finishes. "I can honestly say that I have friends in the Netherlands. I have friends in the UK. I've got friends in Canada. I've never met them before, but I talk to them four or five times a week." Scott has been playing EVE Online since 2006.
EVE Online's impact on the real world manifests in other ways. Perhaps the most exciting news from the event for fans was CCP's announcement that the True Stories initiative—a compendium of player-submitted schemes, plots, and wars—would be the foundation for a set of transmedia projects. This initiative includes a Dark Horse-published comic series and a TV show helmed by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur.
"We've taken some expensive lunches in Hollywood over the years, but we never found the right approach," Gunnarsson tells me when asked about the TV series. "Then we had this breakthrough moment. Why don't we tell the true stories of the players? Why make some shit up when you've got some of the most awe-inspiring stories of friendship and betrayal that have happened in the industry?"
One such story might belong to Steve Shultz, the EVE player from Minnesota. High-level politics and diplomacy aren't interesting to him—"I'm not that kind of player," he says. "I'm not a schemer"—but he has fond memories of his first few excursions with the Gents alliance.
"We lived in Cloud Ring. It's four big pipes, like a square," he explains. "You have an out on each corner. People come into these pipes and you trap them. And you kill them." He's grinning by now. "And what's hilarious is that you'll kill three or four, and they'll take off, but you've got scouts everywhere and you're watching them the whole time."
"Then you kill them again. And we can do this for an hour or two until there's none left." Shultz's story ends on a sympathetic note: "I can only imagine what that would be like, to be one of them. It's one of those things where you just have to keep moving forward. What else are you going to do?"
Alliances like Gents are full of brutal players, in a sense. It's fitting for a brutal game developed in a harsh, primeval country of glaciers, volcanoes, sulfuric geysers, and impromptu snowstorms. But the Iceland I saw is also breathtakingly beautiful, and even at its rowdiest, Reykjavik—and Fanfest—feels cozy, intimate, and comfortable.


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Friday, August 13, 2010
Guest Post: Cutting Knits and Other Tricky Fabrics with Alyson Clair
Welcome back to our guest series with Alyson Clair, who is our resident knits guru. Take it away, Alyson! And super big thanks! --Gertie
Hello readers! Sorry for the gap in my postings. My contract work, and Fall/Winter production of my line (and also planning my wedding!) have taken up a bit more time than I had planned.
Today I'd like to talk about cutting. For me, this is my least favorite thing to do. I think perhaps it is because I am usually so excited to sew what I am cutting out, my patience for the time it takes to neatly cut something is very small! I've been thinking about the best way to talk about cutting, and first I'd like to give you an overview of how it's done in mass production. I also hope this helps you understand the way things are bulk cut, and that if you're cursing your fabrics for shifting, running away, and rolling that is totally normal. When I'm sampling my clothing line - and only cutting out one item at a time - my sailor mouth comes out rather often.
In mass production, there are large cutting tables with spreaders that help hold and lay the fabric over the table. When you lay the fabric, you sandwich it between a butcher-like paper and the marker that you lay on top. A marker is basically a paper pattern layout that serves as a cutting guide, sort of like the pattern layouts you see in home sewing pattern instructions, but for more sizes at a time. A really good reference for photos on this stuff is the manufacturing portion of the American Apparel website. (If you're into nerdy things like that - I am!) After you've laid all your fabric you will use weights and clamps to keep it into place. Also, in this kind of cutting, you cut knits and wovens the same way.
I just cut out a marker of 2 sizes of this top:
Even though this shirt is made of a woven, the thought (and memory) of cutting it out one at a time is enough to make me want to cry. For the 2 sizes, I had 24 units to cut out (and still have 3 more sizes to go!) This meant serious action: the marker and my new favorite toy: a red Eastman Chickadee (a type of electric cutter). First I put down the butcher paper, then with the assistance of a friend, laid the fabric. I'm producing the top in two different colors here, so one is laid on top of the other.
Then we laid the marker on top of the fabric when we had enough layers. One thing I am lacking are proper weights. I end up using whatever is handy, which often times ends up to be odds and ends lurking about the cutting area. It also leads to questions like, "Why is there a pencil sharpener and spray paint in your cutting area?"
For this slippery fabric I wanted to be extra careful that nothing would move. I spied a box of clothes pins I had, and put them to good use. I was amazed at how well they worked.
Then it was time to play with my new toy! No more killing scissors or my hands on these things. I am now the proud owner of an Eastman Chickadee. This is one of the smallest electric cutting knives. It has a round blade and is great for small cuts. Think of it as an electric rotary cutter, that could perhaps take off a finger (wait, I almost did that with a regular rotary cutter!)
Ta-da! All cut, now it's just that sewing part left to do . . .
So hopefully that was a good explanation of how things are cut commercially. Now let's go back home to you all, and get right to any tips I can give on knits and other slippery fabrics.
Your Surface
It can be a wide part of your kitchen counter, your dining room table, or even a hardwood floor. Just make sure you have enough space to lay down the entire cut of your fabric flat. If you have any part bunched up, the slightest bump can skew it.
My own personal favorite is to get a large bulletin board from a garage sale or thrift store. Not only can you stash it behind a door if you live somewhere small, it's perfect for pinning your fabric and pattern down so it can't move. Or if you have particularity pesky knit that rolls a lot, you can pin the whole thing out and then place your pattern. I always get myself in trouble with these types of knits - they love to roll up on me. This one was EXTRA nasty($%#!*!).
Also there are those really nice large self healing mats. You can weight your fabric down and cut it out with a rotary cutter. I don't use this method much myself, since I took off most of one of my fingernails cutting out a camisole while in college, and I always end up bumping the table and shifting the weights around.
Laying Your Pattern Out
Question for you readers: How do you cut our your goodies? Do you lay down your pieces down and trace them with a tailors chalk? Or do you pin and cut around?
Either method will work when cutting knits, but both can have their drawbacks. If you are lifting the fabric to pin the pattern on, that can move it, and sometimes chalk can tug a little while tracing. If my fabric is more stable, I usually go for my favorite chalk - the lovely Chakoner! It's cute, looks like a radish and is refillable. The only drawback is that it is a bit more expensive than a wedge of chalk, but I have had mine for close to 8 years and only had to refill it twice. I always go for yellow since that is the color that will show up well on most fabrics. Once cut, you can dust the extra chalk off.
If I have a really pesky knit that moves a lot, I opt for Plan B.
Yes, that is a silver Sharpie. Traditional? Not so much, but it has saved my butt on a few occasions. Again, I go with silver since I find that it doesn't bleed too much, and shows up on darn near everything I have drawn on it with. If you end up using this method, sometimes the cutting is a little slower, as you want to make sure you cut off all of the marker markings on your fabric. I have used this on a lot of 4-way stretch power meshes, tricots, lightweight knit interfacings, and other super wiggly things.
The most important tip I can give is, make sure those scissors are nice and sharp. This will make your cutting go the smoothest. If you're using a rotary cutter, make sure you have a fresh, sharp, drawing-blood-worthy wheel in. I would rank jersey knits the easiest to cut, and meshes with Lycra the hardest. If you are cutting a fabric with Lycra, you may see the Lycra parts of the fabric catch on your scissors if they aren't super sharp. Depending on the percentage of Lycra, the more you can see. A huge peeve of mine is to be cutting and snag the fabric! I also find that I snag heavily on fabrics like shown on the blouse above: sheer silks. If your scissors need a little love, take them down to a knife sharpening shop, and you can usually have them restored to as good as new for around $10.
I hope that was helpful, and again, I'd love to hear and see what you are doing at home. I love learning new tips, especially the unorthodox ones! Back to fiddling with my newest toy, an industrial 5 thread serger.
I feel like I was just handed the keys to a 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham. Now if I can just figure out this 5th chainstitch threading . . .
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I am so Jealous of your wook room and industrial tools. I wish I had the money to buy proper sewing equipment.ReplyDelete
As always, great tips. I use a very ordinary method- I have a large self-healing cuting mat (the kind you can get from Atlanta Thread). I use very large washers from the harware store as pattern weights to hold down the curly parts at the edges and the pattern pieces. A very sharp blade on the rotary cutter is a must. And, a teacher once told me "don't stress if you can't get the fabric exactly lined up with everything perfectly on grain. Unlike a woven, a knit is forgiving and as long as you are close, your final garment will be fine." I have found that to be true. Of course, that would not work in mass production. Thanks for your wonderful posts!ReplyDelete
I pin things. You have to understand that I'm sewing with a toddler in the house, so weights are out. If it's at all shiny, my little magpie runs off with it. I only tried weights once and then ran screaming back to pinning like I was taught!ReplyDelete
Alyson thank you! First I want to know why I can't buy clothes from your website,or am I just blind and missing something?ReplyDelete
Second, You should TOTALLY do your own pattern line!
Great post with great tips. Thanks so much!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 13, 2010 at 11:49 AM
Hmm, I think I can manage that first method on my giant cutting table at home without that cool cutter though I use a rotary cutter and washers from the hardware store for weights! I love the clothes pin tip.ReplyDelete
oh yes! this came at the perfect time as tomorrow i am going to the fabric store to pick out some fabric for my next project and any extra tips on cutting is very very much appreciated!ReplyDelete
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Glad you guys are liking the tips. Washers are so clever! I can't believe I don't have any. A trip the the hardware store is in order this weekend.ReplyDelete
Ladykatza - I don't sell online. A new online shop has picked me up and their site should be up in the next month.
Thanx for all the info! i am a new-ish sewer, and am just starting to use knits (lots of learning curves!), so your posts are really timely for me, and i'm really interested in all you have to write. we have a small home, so my cutting happens on the lounge floor which is carpeted, (I dream of one day owning a large house where i can dedicate one room to sewing and having a big cutting/work table!), but i find the carpet quite good to poke the pins into to hold the fabric in place (like you talk about doing with a bulletin board), then i pin and cut the pattern pieces with scissors. overall it works pretty well for me. btw i love your new line, and ALL your previous ones... wish i lived closer or your sold online ... my wardrobe would be bursting with your clothes :)ReplyDelete
I have always struggled cutting knits. Great tips! Thank you!ReplyDelete
- Carly JayneAugust 13, 2010 at 3:13 PM
I can't wait to get into the sewing room again! Eric has to do some kid duty so I can sew a few skirts.ReplyDelete
The old bulletin board is genius. I use a homasote board for pinning. Not as handy as the bulletin board, but thick and cheap ( $35 for a 4 x 8 sheet? )and you can make the lumber yard cut it to you specs. Since it's pressed paper I have taken lots of notes on it over the years. And if you ignore it long enough it doubles as a scratching post, I just learned.
After owning several pairs of pricy sewing shears, I prefer the feather weight versions. They are much cheaper and the matte blades grip slippery fabrics. The seem to cut tricky fabrics-like chiffons, more accurately for me and I buy a new pair when they dull up and turn the olds ones into paper scissors.
Awesome article Alyson, I can't wait for more!
- AnonymousAugust 13, 2010 at 4:38 PM
I use a rotary cutter and mat for everything. I can't use scissors because they strain my hands. I also find that ITY type knits (poly/lycra blends) dull my scissors and cutter like nothing else... anyone else experience that?ReplyDelete
Great tip about the sharpie! I don't trace, I pin, but I can see that working. I don't get pattern weights - maybe I'm working with too much slippery fabric, but when I try that the fabric always shifts anyway. Maybe I'm not using enough?
I love the tip with the Silver Sharpie! That's one I've never heard before and it's something that would come in very handy with certain items.ReplyDelete
My favorite way to pin fabrics out is to use one of the cheap cardboard cutting mats from the fabric store (or two, one on top of the other). They can be unfolded and used anywhere, store easily, and I can push the pins directly into the cutting mat like it is a tack board. This really helps with slippery, stretchy and curly fabrics.ReplyDelete
To help stabilize curly knits, I apply scotch tape to the edges after cutting to help keep them from curling. I avoid sewing through the tape as it gums the needle, usually peeling it off just ahead of my stitching. This is obviously not such an efficient idea for mass production, but for the occasional curly knit in home sewing, it's handy.
Great post! I really enjoyed reading about industrial pattern cutting and all the behind the scenes.ReplyDelete
I normally put weights (they are large pebble stones) and then pin my pattern to the fabric.
Thank you so much for a great tutorial, Alyson.ReplyDelete
Thanks very much for the cutting tips. My greatest challenge is sewing slinky knits with the serger. The cut edge always rolls by the time it reaches the needles. Tips on this subject would be greatly appreciated.ReplyDelete
P.S. Cat food tins make great sewing weights.
- AnonymousAugust 13, 2010 at 7:07 PM
Alyson, how does you're cutter work with cutting curves?ReplyDelete
That blouse is just gorgeous!!! Thanks for the clothespins tip..ReplyDelete
Very cool... I love the cutter!ReplyDelete
Wow! That's a serious serger. I love the Chakoner too!ReplyDelete
I use crayola washable markers rather than a sharpie for tracing round patterns. I've never had a time when it didn't wash out. I also use it to label all the pieces, and the front and back of all the pieces.ReplyDelete
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Sheila- Cat food cans, I LOVE IT! They are perfect, I am going to share that with my friends.ReplyDelete
sewiknittoo - The Chickadee cutter is good with larger curves, and can get a little harder to handle around the tighter angles. For tight curves and 90 degree right angles an upright blade works the best. I have one, but it isn't working and rather scary! (I had to take the cutter from my factory job to the ER twice from accidents, he was ok but one time needed stitches). It's really good for cutting out samples and you just have to practice "driving" it to get the hang of things. For neck and armholes it's totally fine.
Great tips, thanks so much. I haven't thought about cutting much, but dread it too, and am hapy to be armed with better ideas for making it go smoothly. Wish I'd seen this a few days ago before sewing my minky and satin blankets--that satin was such a nightmare! I love especially the advice about laying out the whole cut of fabric. I rarely do that (space is so difficult, isn't it?) and can see it would make a difference. -Anneliese www.AestheticNest.comReplyDelete
- MeesPattiAugust 15, 2010 at 11:27 PM
How I cut out fabrics. When I lived in a little apartment, I would go to my mom's to cut, because of room. I saw a fold up cutting board (you know the cardboard ones with a grid ) and voila, the queen size bed and a rolling computer chair made for the best cutting ever. Pins went directly into the board and bed. Nothing moved or wiggled. I moved the board on the bed and rolled the chair to reach what I needed to cut. So now I have mom's large cutting counter, and remember that my "make do" cutting board on the bed was easier and more accurate.ReplyDelete
As for cutting tools. I buy a new pair of scissors at the dollar store for every project. I then donate them to the elementary school art class. It's only 5 pair or so a year, but the teacher wishes a few more parents did this.
I love the bulletin board-turned-cutting board idea! I had never thought of it. What I use now? A huge cutting mat and a rotary cutter. Couldn't live without it. But on those occasions when the fabric is slippery, pinning to a giant bulletin board- genius!ReplyDelete
I love the bulletin board tip. Too bad we got rid of the school sized one that was hanging in my son's room when he was a kid!ReplyDelete
I use a large cutting mat and a new blade. I pin some things if I can, at least to keep it from moving and use assorted weights including rocks from a trip to Maine.
I have used the clip method with knits that roll, a royal pita. I have only used the paper layers with chiffon. I'll have to remember that for finicky knits.
- AnonymousAugust 16, 2010 at 8:26 PM
this is great!! thanks for sharing this info...I will keep this tips in mind when cutting those slippery fabric!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for this thorough post. I love knits and most of the time, I love sewing with them. These tips will help me LOTS!ReplyDelete
Another Awesome Post... keep them coming. Like others I use large washer weights and pins to anchor my fabric.ReplyDelete
After reading this post, I immediately surfed the web for a electric rotary fabric cutter and came across an Allstar cutter and now anxiously awaiting its arrival. I also stopped at the .99 store and purchased a pack of clothes pins. I had an old rtw dress that I took apart to use as a template and made 3 dresses. Now I want to make more and your post on bulk cutting is timely... love it.
Thanks for the clothes pin tip; I never thought of that.ReplyDelete
Like you, cutting out the fabric is my least favorite part of sewing. That electric rotary cutter looks interesting.
I was given the best hint about marking on knits a while ago. I too have used the sharpie but instead of trying to draw the pattern pieces I only put dots around the template. That keeps the fabric from shifting and moving and if you put the dots close together, it is very easy to follow and cut out perfectly!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 25, 2013 at 3:12 PM
Heavy coasters make great pattern weights when laying out your pattern.ReplyDelete
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10 Ideas for Your Christmas Pajamas Tradition
Our family has many different Christmas traditions, but perhaps our most favorite tradition is receiving new Christmas pajamas to wear on Christmas Eve. I dare say that most of you reading this have this same tradition. Today I'm going to give you some ideas to make an old tradition new!
1. Use your pajamas before Christmas: Unheard of, I know! In most families new Christmas pajamas are given and worn on Christmas Eve, but if you have small children that grow out of clothes quickly you might not feel like you're getting the most for your money. You can solve this problem by handing out Christmas pajamas early in the season. Consider giving Christmas pajamas on Thanksgiving Day, on December 1st, or on December 5th (the Eve of Saint Nicholas Day) or you can have a spontaneous Pajama Day and surprise everyone with jammies on a random day.
2. Wear your pajamas for everything: If you give your Christmas pajamas earlier in the season consider wearing them for all of your Christmas-related activities. Wear them to bake cookies, decorate the tree, or watch your favorite Christmas movie. Just don't wear them to bed…save them for bedtime on Christmas Eve! Wear your pajamas everywhere you go on Christmas Day. Wear them to Grandma's house and to deliver cookies to your neighbor, but maybe not to church 😉
3. Have your pajamas delivered by Santa or an elf: What better way to receive Christmas pajamas than to have them magically delivered by an elf or Santa himself. If you have an Elf on a Shelf or an Elf Magic elf, they would probably be thrilled to deliver your Christmas pajamas. Christmas pajamas have been known to magically appear on the front porch, at the foot of the bed, by the fireplace, or under the tree. Sometimes they even magically show up in the car while your family is shopping or out and about! Speaking of elves, how cute would matching jammies for your elf be?!
4. Have a scavenger hunt to find your pajamas: Yes, do that. That sounds like fun 😉
5. Pair your pajamas with another gift: You can give robes, slippers, a sleeping mask, or a new stuffed animal. My favorite Christmas pajama companion is a new book. It can be a Christmas book, bedtime story, or just a book you know they'll love.
6. Pajamas and Christmas lights: Wake up the kids and take them out in their pajamas to drive around and look at Christmas lights. Don't forget to bring some cookies and hot chocolate with you and pump up those Christmas tunes! You might even consider a Random Pajama Gram…visit the house of friends or family then knock on the door in your pjs and sing some Christmas carols to the unsuspecting residents.
7. Use old pajamas to Countdown to Christmas: If you do a Christmas Countdown, such as unwrapping a different Christmas book each day, you can use pajamas from previous years as the wrapping paper! Whether you're celebrating Hanukkah, Advent, or the 12 days of Christmas, this idea will work. If your children have gotten to the age where they can wear the same size several years in a row they can wear their old pajamas on the day they are unwrapped.
8. New ways to wrap your pajamas: Put the pajamas inside of a pillow case and wrap a bow around it. Use the pillow case on Christmas Eve. You save on wrapping paper and a new tradition is born! Similar to the Countdown to Christmas you can use your old Christmas pajamas to wrap up the new ones or use the new Christmas pajamas to wrap up another gift you plan to give that night.
9. Turn your old pajamas into a keepsake: For you crafty folks you can use your old Christmas pajamas to make pillows or save a square off of each pair to make a quilt. You want a tutorial? Too bad. I said you crafty folks…I don't happen to be one of them. I just bring the ideas here, people. However, if one of you crafty people wants to volunteer to turn my old jammies into a quilt…you know where to find me 😉
Here's someone craftier than me that gave the pajama quilt a try:
10. Give pajamas to someone in need: There are few gifts you could give your children at Christmastime that could compare to the example of a giving spirit. Share your beloved Christmas pajama tradition with those less fortunate than you by donating pajamas. Purchase new pajamas to donate to a nursing home or women's shelter. You could start your own "Jammie Drive" or give to an already existing pajama charity.
Check out my sponsored post on behalf of Joe Boxer pajamas from Kmart!
What are your Christmas pajamas traditions?
This post is linked to Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop!
10 Days of Christmas PJs!: Our Christmas jammies from the last decade!
NOTE: When this post was first published in December 2010 it was my SITS feature day as part of SITSmas. The following was originally included at the beginning of my post.
Welcome, SITStahs! I was confused and thought that my SITS feature was tomorrow and not today, so I'm totally unprepared. You can read all about it here. Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll take a look around and decide to stay 🙂 Now let's pretend none of that ever happened and move on to the post that I'm supposed to have up for you…
Posted on December 14, 2010, in Christmas, Christmas PJs, Holidays, SITS Girls, Traditions and tagged Christmas, Holidays, pajamas, tradition. Bookmark the permalink. 112 Comments.
HAPPY HAPPY SITS DAY!!! This is by far the coolest idea I have ever heard of! I'm off to find cute pjs for the fam!
I hope you have a great day!!!
Wonderful, great, cute, creative and on and on! I am so busy that sometimes it feels like the holidays just show up and I am not prepared like I would like to be. These are great ideas to build new traditions…and pretty easy… aside from the quilting 😉 thanks!!!
Congrats on your SITS day!
Our pjs come on Christmas Eve while we are at church from the Christmas elf with magic sleepy dust on them b/c we are one of Santa's first stops so the elf comes ahead of Santa with the magic pjs to get our kids to sleep.
Love the ideas!
Have a very Merry SITSmas!!! Enjoy your special day!
Love that you sound so "real!" And, love your PJ ideas! My family has traditionally opened Christmas oranments on Christmas Eve, but now that my little guy is here, we might start a PJ tradition, too! Making a quilt seems awesome, as does using old PJs as wrapping paper!
Thanks for sharing and Merry SITSmas!
Merry SITSmas!!!
Merry SITSmas from a Goose girl! I love these ideas. We don't have the PJ tradition but I like it!
I love these ideas. I'm in my Christmas PJ's from a year gone by right now!
Yay! Happy SITS day! Great pajama ideas, I just love them. But as usual, your explanation about how you had the wrong day is hysterical and so real – I could totally see myself doing that. And my babies are 12 and 15! It never stops.
Love the countdown idea as well as the Jammie Drive. Great ideas – happy SITS day!
What a great idea! I used to receive pjs from my grandmother every single year before she died. Pajamas didn't seem that cool when I was a kid but after reading this post I will certainly miss that gift this year!
What cute ideas!
Happy SITS day!
Happy SITS day. Sorry to hear about poop and your brain falling out of your ear. Enjoy your PJs, all day and all night.
I love getting my Christmas PJs from my Mum! We do wear them for most of the day too until just before our Christmas meal at about 3pm when we actually get washed and wear something nice!
I'm sorry you got confused about the day but you seem to have handled it really well and a bonus day tomorrow with a babysitter you can relax and visit at your leisure!
Have a lovely day,
We do new pajamas for Christmas. I hadn't thought about doing other things with the old ones.
Happy Happy SITS day to you! So happy to have found your blog! We too do the Christmas PJ thing! Love # 28! Totally sharing this post on fb/twitter!!!
Genevieve (AKA Superchick!) 😉
Great ideas.
We don't always do pjs, but it's always something for sleeping. One year a quilt. One year slippers and blankets. Usually pjs. This year I think I will get them each a new pillow and new sheets. They will be happy with them. And I will be happy because it's practical.
I always set out Rhodes frozen cinnamon rolls on Christmas Eve. Then I bake them as everyone opens their present Christmas morning. That's one of our favorite traditions.
After seeing the SITs email today and having re-read your email from two weeks ago, I had a feeling you'd be the surprised party today! This is a blogger's Christmas you'll never forget.
The site looks spectacular, your posting on the pj's is a hit and hopefully by now you've changed the baby's diaper. Just relax and enjoy the rest of the day. PS. Nice one answering everyone's comment!
wow love you traditions. We dont get much traditions like this in Malta or anyway not in my house. Actually I have started to try and do some nice traditions like baking cookies all day long LOL happy SITS day loved your site
Merry Sitsmas, and Merry Christmas, great blog, I'm following you and I hope I win your blog design, I could sure use your help. Great Idea's with the P.J's, I love it!
Those were some really well put together ideas! I'm really impressed. 🙂 I also love your sense of humor, you made me laugh!
We're taking the kids to see some Christmas lights sometime this week so I think we'll take them out in their PJs now.
Great ideas. My boys would love this.
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Some great ideas here. I like the one about the scavenger hunt, they are so fun. And the one to wrap your presents in pj's takes the gift bag to a whole new level.
Merry SITSmas , Jenn!
Congrats on your special day!
I love your blog!
B xo
MERRY SITSmas!
I love the beginning of this post- way to work under pressure, lady!
I also love pajamas.
Ergo… I must be in love with you.
I like the idea of pairing the pjs with a new bedtime book or going out in the car all dressed up in pjs to look at Christmas lights. Great ideas and thanks for the laugh on you SITS day post! Your pictures are great!
Merry SITSmas from the newest SITStah! 🙂 This is great idea! And definitely ways to make it more fun!!!
I think PJ's for Christmas is a tradition I want to start. But my husband is 6'5 and that's such a difficult size to shop for (long and lean is hard to come by in sizing!).
I can shop for me all day long, though. MORE PAJAMAS FOR ME!
Very Merry SITSmas, btw!
Number 9 made me laugh! I love your ideas, and I am really glad your SITS day turned out this way. You sure are memorable 🙂
I loved your frazzled, and oh-so-real, intro and the list is a fun read. But, I got hung up on #6 where your tip included "wake up the kids." What?! Never, ever, ever…makes me cringe just thinking about it. Happy SITS day!
Happy SITS day. Great blog- you have a new follower.
I love this list. We dress the kids up in their jammies and take them out in the van to look at christmas lights, complete with cocoa and a snack every year. I remember getting jammies on Christmas eve when I was a kid. Not sure why I stopped the tradition with my own… probably cause I thought jammies were boring back then. *L* I love how you inject fun into an old tradition!
Happy SITS day!
AWESOME ideas! Thanks, again, for sharing!!!
So many things to say!
1. Being in Holland means that we celebrate Sinterklaas on Dec. 5th…so what a perfect time (like you suggested) to give them away!
2. We never did the pjs, but now I'm excited to start it when I have a family of my own…including baking in the pjs, midnight caroling expeditions, and then crafting them later into a keepsake!
3. Pretty much every countdown made me laugh…thanks!
I love your ideas! I am a big on PJs and already bought my daughter her Christmas PJs last year. 🙂
Hey, these are some great ideas! Thanks!
What a wonderful post and list of ideas for starting or enhancing a Christmas pajama tradition! I love the idea about having Santa or an Elf on the Shelf deliver the Christmas pjs.
We put the Christmas pjs under each girls' pillow on a random night, along with a ticket to ride the "Family Polar Express". The girls' change in to their pjs, and we head out to the car where there's a bag of popcorn and some treats waiting for them. Then we drive through our local "Candy Cane Lane". Sounds like we have elements of our traditions in common. I love your creativity. Thanks again for the wonderful, inspiring post!
I have so much to say about this! First off, I love the idea of this tradition. It wasn't my family's tradition but I'd like to make it ours when I have my own family. I love the scavenger hunt idea, so much fun. Or giving them with a book, since I love reading. Or wrapping them in a pillow case – since it reminds me of Santa's bag of toys. I love Christmas traditions so much, I wish I could use them all!
Oh such fun ideas! Since my guys have gotten older (17 &22) I have not gotten them pj's for Christmas for a long time because they tell me they don't need them. Weeellllll!!! They are getting them this year thanks to you post.
Also, did I mention how much I personally love pj's? One of the coolest gifts my guys ever got me was a pajama gram. Check it out! http://www.PajamaGram.com
My mom had made us all matching pajamas that were always a HUGE part of our Christmas traditions. I absolutely love this list and it has definitely gotten me thinking about a way to give them more creatively this year!
I think my grandparents always did Christmas Jammies but my parents didn't give them to us for Christmas or we had no tradition of it anyways. I love all the great ideas you have fore new traditions. I think that using the pajamas to bake and do holiday fun stuff is great!
I love tip#8, very green!
I meant to comment here on your featured day but my phone kept saying your blog was busy! =D One year we took our family photos in our jammies so the family could feel like they were with us Christmas morning : )
Cuteness! I am lovin' #4. We open one gift on Christmas eve and it is always PJ's. This year I showed my oldest two kiddos the gifts and they said (while rollin eyes). Yes mom we know they are pj's. So I may just have to get crafty on them and make them look for them :). Thanks for that adorable idea!! Oh, and thanks for adding it to the Christmas Party.
Such fun ideas! We always do new pajamas for Christmas, and we always open them on Christmas Eve 🙂
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Well aren't you just the pajama GURU of the year!?! Talk about the perfect prompt for this post you wrote! Love it!
We haven't done Christmas pajamas every year, but rather just a few of them. But, I vote for options 4, 8,9, and 10 to spruce it up for next year! :>
Somehow I found you here…you know off YouTube…that is like off Broadway but better.
Anyway, I digress.
I do not have a PJ tradition although, growing up we got them.
I like your ideas and I am going to pin them too. Ya know because we kind of do that stuff too.
~Naila Moon
I love pj's as a gift! Right now my favorite option for the little ones would be the Flying Squirrel PJ, because they're super comfortable and they have the cutest fabric patterns.
We have three daughters who are all two years apart at 10,12 and 14.Ever since they were little,they would get very excited about christmas and would wake up christmas morning with wet beds and pajamas!So three years ago,i started having the three of them each wear a cloth diaper and rubberpants to bed on christmas eve under their footed blanket sleepers.They dont mind wearing them and it saves having to change bedding and wet pjs on christmas morning! this past christmas eve they all had their cloth diaper and cute rubberpants under their pjs and all three of them were wet christmas morning.No big deal with them taking their pjs and diaper and rubberpants off.
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The conclusion of our two-part series on AMD. Part one covered AMD's attempts to transform itself from a second-source supplier of Intel designs into a chipmaker powerhouse in its own right.
Athlon 64, and AMD's competitive peak
Overall, the Opteron's architecture was similar to K7's but with two key differences. The first was that the CPU incorporated the system's memory controller into the chip itself, which greatly reduced memory latency (albeit at the cost of some flexibility; new CPUs had to be introduced to take advantage of things like dual-channel memory and faster memory types like DDR2). This showed that AMD saw the benefits of incorporating more capability into the CPU itself, an instinct that would inform the later purchase of GPU maker ATI Technologies.
The K8's biggest benefit for servers, though, was its 64-bit extensions. The extensions enabled AMD's chips to run 64-bit operating systems that could address more than 4GB of memory at a time, but they didn't sacrifice compatibility or speed when running then-standard 32-bit operating systems and applications. These extensions would go on to become the industry standard, beating out Intel's alternate 64-bit Itanium architecture—Intel even licensed the AMD64 extensions for its own compatible x86-64 implementation. (Intel's initial approach could only run x86 code with an immense performance penalty.)
The K8 architecture was successful on the desktop in the form of the Athlon 64 lineup, but it was the Opteron server variants that brought AMD real success in the high-margin market. By the time Intel introduced dual-core Xeons based on the company's Core architecture in September of 2006, AMD had snapped up an estimated 25 percent of the server market. AMD continued to iterate successfully on K8 for a few years, performing several architecture tweaks and manufacturing process upgrades and even helping to usher in the multicore era of computing with the Athlon 64 X2.
Despite technical successes, AMD's financial situation had become precarious. Processor unit sales were falling, and margins on most chips dropped quickly after 2000. AMD also had problems with producing too much inventory; in the second half of 2002, AMD actually had "to limit shipments and to accept receipt of product returns from certain customers," it announced, because the chips it made weren't selling fast enough. The company had a net loss of $61 million in 2001, $1.3 billion in 2002, and $274 million in 2003.
What was sucking away the company's money? It was those darned fabs, just as Raza had feared. In the company's 2001 10-K, AMD estimated, "construction and facilitation costs of Dresden Fab 30 will be approximately $2.3 billion when the facility is fully equipped by the end of 2003." There was also a $410 million to AMD Saxony, the joint venture and wholly owned subsidiary that managed the Dresden fab.
By the following year, AMD upped its estimated costs to fund Dresden to $2.5 billion and added that by the end of 2001, it had invested $1.8 billion. The estimated costs continued to rise, as per the 2003 10-K: "We currently estimate that the construction and facilitation costs of Fab 30 will be $2.6 billion when it is fully equipped by the end of 2005. As of December 29, 2002, we had invested $2.1 billion in AMD Saxony." That same year, AMD plowed ahead with a new Dresden fab ("Fab 36"), investing $440 million into it by the end of the year.
The money for these huge investments all relied on AMD's ability to sell chips, and AMD's ability to sell chips was made easier by its competitive edge over Intel. Unluckily for AMD, Intel didn't take this challenge lying down.
Intel resurgent
AMD's high point was, in most respects, one of Intel's lowest. "Clearly [AMD] had a very competitive product in Opteron in particular," Intel spokesperson Bill Calder told Ars, "and there was a lot of consternation inside of Intel and a lot of work going around trying to correct the problem and trying to counter not only in the market but in the press. At the time, there was quite a bit of focus on the competitive threat from AMD, but it was also very much a rallying call inside of Intel."
Even as AMD was beating Intel soundly with the Opteron server parts, the AMD64 extensions, and the Athlon desktop parts, Intel was sowing the seeds that would eventually grow into one of the company's most resounding successes: the Core architecture. By 2003, it was becoming clear that the NetBurst architecture that powered the Pentium 4 wasn't performing as well as the company had hoped—Intel had hoped to push the chips' clock speeds all the way up to 10GHz, but even at 4GHz, the Pentium 4's heat and power consumption were causing reliability problems. These same heat and power issues also made NetBurst ill-suited for use in the growing laptop segment. Rather than modify the Pentium 4's architecture to work better in laptops, the company went back to the drawing board and assigned a small team in Israel to work on a project known as Banias. This chip would later go on to be known as the Pentium M, the basis of Intel's successful Centrino marketing push (Centrino bundled a Pentium M processor, an Intel chipset, and Intel 802.11b and 802.11g wireless adapters).
Pentium M didn't start from scratch; it instead went back to Intel's Pentium III architecture and modified it to increase performance and efficiency. Pentium M also refined power saving technologies like SpeedStep, which dynamically adjusted the CPU's clock speed and voltage depending on how heavily the chip was being used.
The CPU was such a success for Intel in laptops that, when the NetBurst architecture's time was up, the company set about to adapting the Pentium M's architecture for desktops and servers as well. It ramped up Pentium M's clock speed, added 64-bit extensions (licensed, of course, from AMD), and added a second CPU core, which provided the basic ingredients for the Core 2 Duo (the original Core Duo and Core Solo were sold only in laptops and lacked 64-bit extensions—Core 2 Duo was this architecture's first foray into non-mobile form factors.)
This Core architecture accomplished several important goals: it gave Intel a fast, power-efficient 64-bit Xeon in the server market to stem Opteron's tide; it took back the symbolically important performance crown in the desktop market; and it was much more power-efficient than AMD's laptop chips right at the time when laptops began to outsell desktops for the first time. (AMD's power consumption in laptops became competitive only recently with 2011's Llano and 2012's Trinity parts.)
The Core architecture hit AMD where it hurt, but the biggest damage to AMD's long-term health came from Intel's execution strategy. Beginning around the same time, Intel moved to a system of smaller but aggressively timed processor updates that it called "tick-tock."
Every year, Intel would introduce a new processor lineup—the "ticks" would gently tweak a CPU architecture and move it to a smaller, lower-power manufacturing process, while the "tocks" would remain on the established manufacturing process and introduce more drastic architectural changes. This system limits the risk that a new process or architecture will run into significant problems during the manufacturing stage, and new processor iterations can be introduced so quickly that a competitor with a superior architecture won't necessarily be able to stay on top for years, as AMD did with K8.
Neither Core nor any subsequent Intel architecture has left AMD behind all by itself, but Core 2 kicked off a relentless string of well-executed Intel CPUs. While AMD's CPUs continued to improve, they were over time shut out of the high-end market once more and forced to compete again mainly on price, mirroring the company's early struggles. It also didn't help that, just as Intel was churning out its best products in years, AMD was trying to swallow another company whole.


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Instead of racing to the usual stable of songs (are we done yet with "I Ran" by A Flock of Seagulls?), the Nationals racing presidents came out of the gate to the sound of "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" by Michael Jackson. Each wore black shoes and a white glove.
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For a fresh take on barbecued pulled pork we decided to reinvent it from the bottom up. And we started by ditching the pork.
As delicious as pork is, for this July Fourth offering we wanted something that didn't take hours upon hours on the grill. Instead, we went with chicken thighs. Nearly as lean as chicken breasts, thighs stay moist and are difficult to overcook. They also happen to be delicious when doused with a one-two punch of lemon-pepper sauce.
We start by marinating the thighs in a blend of lemon juice and zest, salt, pepper and olive oil. Do it for at least two hours, but you also can toss it together the night before. After that, you just pop the thighs on the grill for about 10 minutes, then shred them with forks. A second dose of lemon-pepper comes in the sauce you toss the shredded chicken with, a tangy blend of lemon juice and zest, mayonnaise and buttermilk.
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Start to finish: 2 ½ hours (30 minutes active)
Servings: 6
2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs, trimmed of fat
Zest and juice of 2 lemons, divided
Kosher salt and ground black pepper
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 tablespoons light mayonnaise
¼ cup buttermilk
Bulkie rolls or salad greens, to serve
In a zip-close plastic bag, combine the chicken thighs with the zest and juice of 1 lemon, plus a hefty pinch of salt, 1 teaspoon of pepper, and the olive oil. Close the bag, then turn and massage with your fingers to work the marinade into the meat. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours and up to overnight.
When ready to cook the chicken, heat the grill to medium-high. Use a vegetable oil-soaked paper towel held with tongs to oil the grates.
Grill the thighs for 5 to 6 minutes per side, or until cooked through. Transfer the chicken to a plate, then use 2 forks to pull and shred the meat into bite-size pieces.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, buttermilk and the remaining lemon juice and zest. Stir in the chicken and season with salt and an additional 1 / 2teaspoon pepper. Serve the chicken piled on bulkie rolls or over a bed of greens.
Nutrition information per serving: 260 calories; 140 calories from fat (54 percent of total calories); 15 g fat (4 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 100 mg cholesterol; 3 g carbohydrate; 0 g fiber; 1 g sugar; 28 g protein; 210 mg sodium.


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